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CSS - Origami Style

CSS - Origami Style

I believe that information should be and has an inherent desire to be free. Although the rewards you gain in this asymmetric approach to communication are much different than the traditional approach which treats knowledge as power, I believe it is better to share your knowledge with others. I have benefitted tremendously from others doing this and could not imagine not reciprocating that learning opportunity to others. After all, this capability of meaningful many-to-many communications is what makes the medium of the Internet so revolutionary!

My projects, linked on the right or explained in more detail below vary in scope, size, complexity and development activity. Click on the title for each project to learn more about the project, including tutorials for how use them on your own site and some examples where others have done so. In each case I have done my best to:

  • Document the reasons I created the project
  • Explain how others might can make use of it
  • Share any links / resources which relate to the concepts involved
  • Provide a way for you to contact me with feature suggestions / requests

I am also available for – and interested in – doing custom plugin development for WordPress including collaborative partnerships with other developers for larger scope concepts. If you want WordPress to do something that it currently can’t, contact Idealien Studios to discuss the possibilities. Your project is probably easier than you think!

Idealien Category Enhancements

Version:
v1.2
Release:
June 16, 2009
Details:
Custom category and post templates that you can manage through the admin console like page templates. Or assign one template to a top-level category and have it affect all child categories. This plugin will be of interest to anyone using Wordpress as a CMS with different categories for different content types. i.e. portfolio, FAQ, blog, photo gallery, etc.

Idealien Templates

Version:
N/A
Release:
2009
Details:
This section will be an area where I share individual templates that I have built for various projects which can be re-used within your own themes. They will use custom fields or other Wordpress plugin functionality to manage the content on the backend.

PingCrawl

Version:
v0.9
Release:
August 30, 2009
Details:
Every time you publish a post on your blog it searches through the list of links from a category of your blogroll and builds a list of "related posts" from them using Google Blog Search. If you are looking for an easy way to build a better search engine ranking or have a group of sites that you’d like to share traffic with, you need to consider this plugin.